Rather than viewing the Olympian gods as literal superhuman entities, Plotinus treats them as representations of the higher planes of reality. The gods reflect the Divine Intellect ( Nous ) and the archetypal forms.
He casts the ordinary, material life of humans as a shared dream or a play on a stage. Myth is the tool used to pierce that dream and remind the soul of its true, native homeland. Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice
In Neoplatonism, dialectic alone is insufficient to reach the ultimate reality. Because the supreme principle—The One—is beyond human language and rational categories, vivid imagery and symbolic narratives are required to shift the soul's perspective and guide it back to its divine origin.
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